GRE Word List
JUXTAPOSE
to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect)
The meaning of the word juxtapose is to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bungle | to act or work clumsily and awkwardly |
| dissident | disagreeing especially with an established religious or political system, organization, or belief |
| skittish | lively or frisky in action : capricious |
| flay | to strip off the skin or surface of : skin |
| retaliate | to return like for like |
| address | to mark directions for delivery on |
| ruffian | a brutal person : bully |
| wage | a payment usually of money for labor or services usually according to contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis |
| log | a usually bulky piece or length of a cut or fallen tree |
| jaundiced | affected with or as if with jaundice |